A Couple Shots of the Westcott

I don't remember if the Westcott was going out to greet the Tregurtha or the Mississagi but at anyrate, she was going out.

I kind of like this shot.  Her flag flapping in the breeze with the Tregurtha off in the distance.

I think she was returning from the Tregurtha at this point.  I couldn't get any pictures of her with the Tregurtha because I think she went on the other side.

The Renaissance Center in the background.

And more of the Detroit skyline in the background.

And the Paul R. Tregurtha

Next up is the big Paul R. Tregurtha.

She was coming down from St. Clair after a partial unload.  Prior to that, she would have loaded in Superior Wisconsin.

She was heading down to the Monroe Power Plant where she would unload the rest of her coal.

So as you can see, she's not as loaded as she would normally be.

Amazingly enough, this is the first time I've see her this shipping season.  Usually I would have seen her more by this time in the shipping season.

But I think she has mostly been going up to St. Clair and not at times where it is convenient to catch her.

This time, she was passing by Detroit and at a time when I could catch her, so I decided to catch her.

She is the largest ship on the Great Lakes and thus carries the title "Queen of the Lakes".

Many ships have carried that title (including the Edmund Fitzgerald) but she will likely carry that title until her retirement.

With the retirement of coal plants on the Great Lakes, I'm not sure it is likely that there will be another 1000 footer built.

I have a feeling that any new ships will be around 700 feet in size.  That enables them to go into ports that the 1000 footers can't.

She passes under the Ambassador Bridge.  At her size, she's not even dwarfed by it.

And a sailboat passes her.

A shot of her pilothouse.

A shot of her pilothouse with the Ambassador Bridge in the backgorund.

I kind of like the way the flag was blowing in the picture.

She continues down to Monroe.  I think she is about three hours to her destination at this point.

I really like how the flag was blowing in this picture.

I also like how the water looks in this picture.

And one more.

And the Algoma Conveyer

The next ship up is the Algoma Conveyor.

She's one of the Chinese builds that I actually like but only because her name reminds me of the Atlantic Conveyor.  One of these days, I will have to make a post about her.

I think she was coming down from Goderich which I think means that she was hauling salt.

I'm not sure where she was heading though.  I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in Ohio though.

It was a pretty windy day and that made for some nice waves.

the almost bow shot.

She makes a turn for the next part of the Detroit River.

Another shot with some bow wave action.  These ships seems to cut through the water a little differently than the other ships.

I really like this wave shot.

Same with this one.

She passes by Downtown Windsor.  The Caesar's Palace building towering over everything.

I think when things settle down again, I'll have to head back over to Canada again.

She starts to pass under the bridge.  Although I don't think she's actually under it at this point.

A little more of the Bridge.

Even though regular travel is shut down between Canada and the US, commerce is still flowing.  You can see a ton of trucks over the bridge.

And now I think she is actually under the Bridge.

And I think at this point, she is passed the bridge.

She continues down the River.  Like I said, I wasn't sure where she was heading.

She moves past the Windsor Cement docks.  I think the last time I saw someone was the Stephen A. Roman and that was a while ago.

She passes the Windsor stone docks.

A think at this point she is in line with Mistersky Fuel Docks.

And one more picture before moving on to my next subject.

Catching the Mississagi

So I'm still catching up with my blogging.  These pictures are from 7/22/20.  I ended up heading down to Riverside Park to catch the Paul R. Tregurtha.  Before that could happen, there were a couple of other ships.

First up was the Mississagi as I saw it still docked the Sterling Fuel Docks in Windsor.  I wasn't sure how long she was going to be here.

After the ship in the next post passed by, the Mississagi pulled out of the fuel dock.

I think she was heading for the stone docks at Bruce Mines.  There she would pick up stone for somewhere else.

I'll have to admit, she's a nice looking ship.

Although she's a little beat up.

 Because I was paying more attention to the Tregurtha, I didn't get too many pictures of the Mississagi.